Danièle Bélanger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 76053 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Danièle Bélanger |
| PRENOMES | Danièle |
| SOBRENOME | Bélanger |
| ASSINATURA | BÉLANGER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5640-2912 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 557 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Revisiting ‘who gets in’
This article examines the transformation of borders with the integration of Automated Decision Support Systems, including Artificial Intelligence, in Canada's migration management since 2015. This study pursues the dual objectives of analyzing the introduction of ADSS and its impact on decision-making regarding immigration applications. The research focuses on the Chinook system, introduced in 2018 for temporary immigration files, and explores ho…
Federalized Two-step Migration in Quebec
In federal states, immigration regulation is frequently shared with subnational levels of governance. In Canada, provinces even have immigration selection powers. This is significant, as an increasing proportion of new permanent residents (1) are now selected by a province, and (2) previously held a temporary residence permit. However, the ways in which the interaction between the federalization of immigration and two-step migration impacts migra…
How Turkey has governed Syrian refugees over a decade
Production et livraison d'une main-d'œuvre juste-à-temps
Langue et immigration
Cet article examine de manière temporelle les effets de la connaissance des langues officielles sur l'insertion économique de deux cohortes d'immigrants qui se sont installées dans la région métropolitaine de Montréal, l'une en 1989, l'autre en 2009. S'appuyant sur les données de la Base de données longitudinales sur l'immigration (BDIM), il vise plus spécifiquement à répondre à quatre questions : (1) quel est l'effet de la connaissance des langu…
Reaching the Waiting Room
Explaining immigration casework in federal Members of Parliament's district offices in Canada
In Canada, a majority of federal constituency offices deal primarily with immigration files. The few qualitative studies on the subject show that the resources dedicated to these files and the type of work carried out on the immigration files handled vary between offices, thus contributing to disparities in service between federal electoral districts. How can such variation be explained? Based on the quantitative analysis of unpublished administr…
Acts of Citizenship in Time and Space among Agricultural Migrant Workers in Quebec during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Migrant farm workers recruited under Canada’s temporary employment programs work in difficult environments, under poor working conditions, and live in unsafe housing in remote rural communities. Fearful of repatriation or replacement, many accept their working and living conditions as part of a necessary sacrifice to improve their living conditions and those of their families in the countries of origin. At the same time, some migrant farm workers…
Staggered Inclusion
Pathways to permanent residency among immigrants in Canada have become more often preceded by a phase of temporariness. Research on these processes indicates that a two-step immigration regime is gaining momentum. However, we know little about those who qualify for permanent residency and experience a transition to permanent status inland. This article examines such experience of encountering federal and provincial administrative borders from wit…
Classe sociale et contexte d'asile
Les parcours d’exil sont le fruit d’une pluralité de facteurs dont l’étude approfondie permet l’accès à une compréhension plus fine des phénomènes migratoires. Cet article mobilise une approche bourdieusienne pour interroger l’influence de la classe sociale sur les parcours d’exil de réfugié.e.s syrien.ne.s pris en charge par le gouvernement (RPG) et arrivé.e.s au Canada entre 2015 et 2016. Basés sur vingt récits de vie de familles syriennes réin…
Immigration au Canada
La population du Québec se diversifie, comme en témoignent le nombre de personnes nées à l’étranger (la première génération) et celui des personnes dont au moins un des parents est né à l’extérieur du Canada (la deuxième génération). Au total, 46,5 % des Canadiens (Québec exclu) et 25,1 % des Québécois sont des immigrants de première génération ou des enfants d’immigrants, donc de la deuxième génération. Au Québec, c’est un peu plus de 15 % de la…
Introduction
L’objectif de ce dossier scientifique est d’éclairer, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire, ces migrations de jeunes vers le Canada, particulièrement vers le Québec, qu’ils proviennent des pays dont l’émigration est fortement visibilisée dans les débats publics actuels que des pays qui se vivent seulement comme des territoires d’immigration. Les auteurs analysent conjointement les tendances démographiques, les politiques migratoires, les parco…
The Diversity of French Expatriates’ Migration Projects in Quebec
Based on a qualitative study conducted between 2016 and 2018 among thirty French people who migrated to Quebec, this article proposes to distinguish four types of migration projects: the exploration, settlement, circulation and return projects. The trajectories and narratives collected show that these projects are not mutually exclusive or fixed in time, but that there is a fluidity between them, which moreover do not always correspond to the adm…
Care Needs and Migration
Migration stands as a livelihood strategy for households in Southeast Asia. Recent literature calls for the study of migration at the household level and for the consideration of care needs among the determinants of migration. Based on the case of Vietnam, this article contributes to past research by providing a longitudinal analysis of how household care needs may influence the use of internal migration as a livelihood strategy. Using a househol…
Syrian trajectories of exile in Lebanon and Turkey
Research on refugee trajectories rarely takes into account social class. Yet migration options for those fleeing conflicts and insecurity are more or less dangerous, desirable and doable and differences in trajectories have to do with people's ability to mobilise resources at a given time and in a given space. Based on 42 semistructured interviews conducted with Syrians who fled to Lebanon and Turkey between 2012 and 2017, this article focuses on…
Introduction to the special section
Governance through discipline in the neighbourhood
In this paper, we contend that the regulation of refugees by means of discipline is not limited to camps; it also takes place within the context of urban life. This is particularly relevant for Turkey, where only 1.5% of the 3.7 million Syrian refugees live in the camps while the rest are dispersed across Turkish cities. Our fieldwork conducted in the city of İzmir indicates that the processes of governing refugees extend into the neighbourhoods …
Sur le fil
En mars 2020, les mesures prises autour du monde pour contenir le virus du Covid-19 bouleversent simultanément, et de manière majeure, les rythmes et activités de la vie quotidienne. Cette période est celle durant laquelle la rupture produite par la pandémie a été la plus forte, tant elle était soudaine et inimaginable. Au Québec, les migrants avec un statut de résidence temporaire sont affectés de manière spécifique : ils sont nombreux à travail…
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the renovation. Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist welfare system …
Réformes de l'immigration au Québec en 2019 et 2020
This research note examines the economic performance of economic immigrants selected under the Quebec Experience Program (PEQ). Launched in 2010 and currently being challenged by the Government of Quebec, this immigration program offers an accelerated path to obtaining a Quebec Selection Certificate. Drawing on data from The Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), this analysis focuses on PEQ immigrants' employment rates and employment income c…
An Im/mobility turn
This special issue explores the analytical significance of immobility for understanding the inequalities that animate-and co-exist in tandem with-growing global mobility and migration. With a particular focus on the literature on migrant care workers, the collection examines how the socio-spatial mobility of these workers is blocked, stuck, and constrained, and how these immobilities are integral to their migration experiences. Extending Doreen M…
The politics of 'waiting' for care
This paper analyses two dimensions of ‘waiting’ in the realm of family reunification: the policy perspective and the immigrants’ experience. First, in line with the migration management paradigm, the Canadian government has introduced various measures to reduce ‘waiting times’. We discuss changes in the family reunification programme of parents and grandparents implemented since 2011 as emblematic of these measures. Such changes are also situated…
Refugios y refugiados
In the last decade we have witnessed unprecedented events regarding the forced displacement of people in various parts of the world, many of whom should have access to protection mechanisms in the countries where they arrive. Despite the existence of international treaties and agreements aimed at preserving the lives of people, guaranteeing their access to rights, as well as their insertion and integration in the host localities, what we have see…
We no longer fear brides from afar”
Since the late 1990s, Vietnamese women’s participation in international marriage migration has garnered academic and media attention. In contrast, internal marriage migration, a key driver of overall internal migration flows, has received scant consideration. In this paper, we examine marriage and migration dynamics in four rural communes that have “lost” significant numbers of their single women to international marriage and gained brides throug…
Vietnam’s Children in a Changing World
An Im/mobility turn
This special issue explores the analytical significance of immobility for understanding the inequalities that animate-and co-exist in tandem with-growing global mobility and migration. With a particular focus on the literature on migrant care workers, the collection examines how the socio-spatial mobility of these workers is blocked, stuck, and constrained, and how these immobilities are integral to their migration experiences. Extending Doreen M…
Ethnic diversity and statistics in East Asia
East Asian nations have become increasingly diverse in their ethnic composition since the 1990s. A large proportion of recent immigrants consists of women from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, who migrated following their marriage to male citizens from South Korea and Taiwan. To study this new group of foreign residents, the governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000. This paper c…
Reproducing Deportability
Deportability, or a threat of deportation, can be viewed as a technique of discipline employed to make migrant workers efficient and compliant. Under the threat of deportation, migrants accept dangerous, dirty, degrading and difficult jobs for low pay. Deportability also prevents them from challenging their working and living conditions either individually or collectively. Most of the literature on deportability applies to unauthorised migrants. …
Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship
Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called ‘foreign brides’. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policie…
Loss and xenophobia in the city
Many research reports and scholarly articles based on survey data show that public opinion in Turkey towards Syrians has become more negative in recent years. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four research sites in Izmir, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger show that anxiety about losing a preconceived notion of status is constitutive of the local Turkish population’s attitudes towards the inflow of Syrian refugees. The perception of loss that fra…
Son Preference in a Rural Village in North Vietnam
This article explores the continuing preference for sons in the context of low fertility in Vietnam. Although the total fertility rate for Vietnam declined from 6.0 children per woman of reproductive age in 1979 to 2.2 children in 1998, demographic evidence shows that son preference remains strong and influences contraceptive and fertility behavior. This study examines the underlying factors for son preference in a rural village in North Vietnam.…
The impact of transnational migration on gender and marriage in sending communities of Vietnam
The recent, rapid increase in cross-border marriages between women from Southeast Asia and men from East Asia is creating a new international migration flow of 'marriage migrants' in the region. This article documents how marriage migration reconfigures gender power relations in three migrant-sending communities in Southern Vietnam. Analyses of data collected in 2007 indicate changes in the status of daughters and sons and a significant transform…
The governance of Syrian refugees in Turkey
This article argues that the convergence of state policies and the interests of capital and business owners are central to the understanding of the governance of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Drawing on fieldwork in Ankara, Gaziantep, Hatay and Izmir, collected between 2016 and 2018, this article shows that the terms of Turkish state’s temporary protection regime, the state’s ad hoc leniency towards the informal use of refugee labour and the discipl…
The politics of 'waiting' for care
This paper analyses two dimensions of ‘waiting’ in the realm of family reunification: the policy perspective and the immigrants’ experience. First, in line with the migration management paradigm, the Canadian government has introduced various measures to reduce ‘waiting times’. We discuss changes in the family reunification programme of parents and grandparents implemented since 2011 as emblematic of these measures. Such changes are also situated…
Del tránsito a la espera
Cada año, entre 150.000 y 400.000 migrantes centroamericanos, principalmente de Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala, se desplazan a través de México con la intención de llegar a los Estados Unidos. A fin de paliar la inseguridad y la precariedad que estos migrantes enfrentan en México, han surgido diferentes organizaciones de la sociedad civil que los asisten, brindándoles diversos servicios: hospedaje, comida, sanitarios, atención médica, etc. Den…
Labor Migration and Trafficking among Vietnamese Migrants in Asia
Asia is known as a continent where human trafficking is particularly prevalent. Departing from the bulk of research on trafficking in Asia that focuses on illegal migration and prostitution, this article examines the embeddedness of human trafficking in legal temporary migration flows. This analysis uses survey and interview data to document the experiences of Vietnamese migrants who worked in East Asian countries. It identifies a continuum of tr…
Migrating against all the odds
Of all temporary unskilled migrant workers who originated from Bangladesh in 2010, women accounted for less than 3%. This extremely low proportion of women results from the numerous sociocultural, religious and political barriers women labour migrants encounter. Based on 23 in-depth interviews collected in 2009 in Bangladesh with former migrant domestic workers who worked in the Gulf region, the article argues that women actively negotiate these …
Becoming a Migrant
Since the early 1990s several million men and women from Southeast Asia's lower socioeconomic classes have migrated to East Asia with a temporary worker visa or a spousal visa. This article is based on five years of ongoing fieldwork in migrants' communities of origin in rural Vietnam and in places of destination in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. The authors make three contributions: first, they argue that the categorization of migrants as either…
Single women's experiences of sexual relationships and abortion in Hanoi, Vietnam
This article explores the circumstances of premarital sexuality, unwanted pregnancies, and abortion among single women in Vietnam. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with single women who had an abortion in the Hanoi region in 1996. Participants were contacted through two health centres providing abortion services. Results show that women have sex in the context of committed relationships and view sexual relationships as part of courtship …
From Foreign Trainees to Unauthorized Workers
This paper documents the experiences of Vietnamese migrant workers who migrated to Japan as industrial “trainees” during early and mid-2000, some of whom became unauthorized workers. Based on in-depth interviews and survey data collected in Vietnam in 2008 and 2009 from migrants who had returned from Japan, this paper explores the factors that led some workers to slip from legal to irregular work. Our analysis shows how the recruitment process in…
Beyond the Brokers
Vietnamese immigrant female spouses account for the second largest group of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and South Korea. This essay examines the local industry in Vietnam that facilitates and organizes marriages between local women and foreign men. The analysis focuses on how this industry is negotiated at the village level in the context of Vietnamese state rhetoric equating female marriage migration to human trafficking and the delocalization of…
Migration Management, Disciplinary Power, and Performances of Subjectivity
Agricultural migrant workers, recruited to work in Canada under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), are disciplined to be compliant and productive. Based on ethnographic data, we draw attention to several ways in which Spanish-speaking migrants, employed in agriculture in a rural community in Southwestern Ontario, respond to this disciplinary power. Most migrants discipline themselves and others to be productive and compliant workers. W…
Regional Differences in Household Composition and Family Formation Patterns in Vietnam
This paper studies household composition in Vietnam from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey conducted in 1992- 1993 (VLSS 1992-93) on a nationally representative sample of 4800 households. The results point to a higher proportion of nuclear families in the North, while more extended and multiple family households exist in the South. Analyses suggest that young couples of the southern reg…
Syrian trajectories of exile in Lebanon and Turkey
Research on refugee trajectories rarely takes into account social class. Yet migration options for those fleeing conflicts and insecurity are more or less dangerous, desirable and doable and differences in trajectories have to do with people's ability to mobilise resources at a given time and in a given space. Based on 42 semistructured interviews conducted with Syrians who fled to Lebanon and Turkey between 2012 and 2017, this article focuses on…
Marriage Migrants as Emigrants
This article examines the emigration dimension of marriage migration in Asia by focusing on remittances received by parents from daughters who married and migrated abroad. Based on a study of 250 migrant-sending households in Vietnam with a daughter living in an Asian country as a ‘foreign wife’, the analysis provides empirical evidence that emigrant spouses make substantial financial contributions to their natal families through remittances. A m…
Migration Theories and First Nations Mobility
Au Canada, la recherche sur la migration des autochtones vers les centres urbains a mis en avant l'importance de facteurs économiques, les mou‐vements de retour étant expliqués comme un échec lié aux difficultés d'adaptation. Les facteurs sous‐tendant la migration vers les villes ont été peu étudiés, et des études récentes ont mis l'accent sur l'ampleur des mouvements plutôt que sur d'autres théories. Cet article suggère des voies selon lesquelle…
Les rapports de masculinité à la naissance augmentent-ils au Vietnam
Une faible fécondité et une préférence pour les garçons sont à l'origine des taux élevés de masculinité à la naissance constatés en Inde, en Corée du Sud et en Chine. Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux rapports de masculinité à la naissance calculés à partir des recensements effectués en 1989 et 1999 au Vietnam, des statistiques obtenues auprès d'hôpitaux à Hanoï et à Hô Chi Minh-Ville et de l'enquête sur les niveaux de vie au Vietnam ré…
The Persistence of Induced Abortion in Cuba
Cuba's annual induced abortion rate persistently ranks among the highest in the world, and abortion plays a prominent role in Cuban fertility regulation despite widespread contraceptive prevalence and state promotion of modern contraceptives. We explore this phenomenon using the concept of an “abortion culture,” typically used in reference to Soviet and post‐Soviet countries. We synthesize existing literature to provide a historical account of ab…
Agricultural Land, Gender and Kinship in Rural China and Vietnam
This study examines the impact of current land policies in China and Vietnam on women's entitlement to land, women's wellbeing and gender power relations. The ethnographic study of one village in each of the two countries contextualizes women's lives in the kinship and marriage system in which power and gender relations are embedded. Current land policies, when implemented in the existing kinship and marriage system, make women's entitlement to l…
Indispensable Sons
The decline in fertility that has taken place in most countries of Asia over the past few decades has presented a challenge to demographic theory. While most families have shrunk considerably in size and the desire for only a few children is shared by most, the importance of producing a male child has persisted in some regions and strata of many Asian societies. The clash between the desire for only a few children and for a male child causes many…
Single women's experiences of sexual relationships and abortion in Hanoi, Vietnam
This article explores the circumstances of premarital sexuality, unwanted pregnancies, and abortion among single women in Vietnam. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with single women who had an abortion in the Hanoi region in 1996. Participants were contacted through two health centres providing abortion services. Results show that women have sex in the context of committed relationships and view sexual relationships as part of courtship …
Regional Differences in Household Composition and Family Formation Patterns in Vietnam
This paper studies household composition in Vietnam from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey conducted in 1992- 1993 (VLSS 1992-93) on a nationally representative sample of 4800 households. The results point to a higher proportion of nuclear families in the North, while more extended and multiple family households exist in the South. Analyses suggest that young couples of the southern reg…
La représentation des communautés immigrantes à la télévision francophone du Québec
La représentation physique et symbolique des communautés immigrantes à la télévision francophone concerne un enjeu sociopolitique important dans la mesure où la télévision peut être considérée comme un support privilégié d'actions culturelles visant l'intégration sociale des nouveaux arrivants dans la société d'accueil. Cet article propose l'analyse d'un corpus concernant les perceptions respectives de groupes de Québécois francophones et de grou…
Gender, Household, State
A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of economic market reforms that characterized the nation in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals
Son Preference in a Rural Village in North Vietnam
This article explores the continuing preference for sons in the context of low fertility in Vietnam. Although the total fertility rate for Vietnam declined from 6.0 children per woman of reproductive age in 1979 to 2.2 children in 1998, demographic evidence shows that son preference remains strong and influences contraceptive and fertility behavior. This study examines the underlying factors for son preference in a rural village in North Vietnam.…
Sex Selective Abortions
Dans les sociétés patriarcales, où la valeur culturelle et économique des fils est supérieure, la préférence pour les garçons se manifeste de différentes manières, depuis l’allocation différentielle des ressources du ménage et des soins médicaux jusqu’à l’abandon et l’infanticide des filles. Avec la disponibilité accrue des échographies à la moitié des années 80, la détermination du sexe du fœtus suivie de l’avortement sélectif selon le sexe est …
Are Sex Ratios at Birth Increasing in Vietnam
Bélanger Danièle, Khuat T. H. O., Liu J., Le Thanh Thuy, Pham Viet Thanh. Are Sex Ratios at Birth Increasing in Vietnam?. In: Population (English edition), 58e année, n°2, 2003. pp. 231-250
Social policy reforms and daughters’ schooling in Vietnam
Les rapports de masculinité à la naissance augmentent-ils au Vietnam
Une faible fécondité et une préférence pour les garçons sont à l'origine des taux élevés de masculinité à la naissance constatés en Inde, en Corée du Sud et en Chine. Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux rapports de masculinité à la naissance calculés à partir des recensements effectués en 1989 et 1999 au Vietnam, des statistiques obtenues auprès d'hôpitaux à Hanoï et à Hô Chi Minh-Ville et de l'enquête sur les niveaux de vie au Vietnam ré…
Population and Ethno-Demography in Vietnam
Migration Theories and First Nations Mobility
Au Canada, la recherche sur la migration des autochtones vers les centres urbains a mis en avant l'importance de facteurs économiques, les mou‐vements de retour étant expliqués comme un échec lié aux difficultés d'adaptation. Les facteurs sous‐tendant la migration vers les villes ont été peu étudiés, et des études récentes ont mis l'accent sur l'ampleur des mouvements plutôt que sur d'autres théories. Cet article suggère des voies selon lesquelle…
Indispensable Sons
The decline in fertility that has taken place in most countries of Asia over the past few decades has presented a challenge to demographic theory. While most families have shrunk considerably in size and the desire for only a few children is shared by most, the importance of producing a male child has persisted in some regions and strata of many Asian societies. The clash between the desire for only a few children and for a male child causes many…
Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship
Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called ‘foreign brides’. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policie…
The Persistence of Induced Abortion in Cuba
Cuba's annual induced abortion rate persistently ranks among the highest in the world, and abortion plays a prominent role in Cuban fertility regulation despite widespread contraceptive prevalence and state promotion of modern contraceptives. We explore this phenomenon using the concept of an “abortion culture,” typically used in reference to Soviet and post‐Soviet countries. We synthesize existing literature to provide a historical account of ab…
Second-trimester abortions and sex-selection of children in Hanoi, Vietnam
Because sex-selective abortions are generally conducted during the second term of the pregnancy, timing of abortion can be used as an indirect way of studying sex-selection by abortion. We examined the likelihood of having a first-trimester vs. second-trimester abortion among a group of 885 married women who had an abortion in an obstetric hospital in Hanoi in 2003. In the absence of sex-selection by abortion, the number and sex of living childre…
Agricultural Land, Gender and Kinship in Rural China and Vietnam
This study examines the impact of current land policies in China and Vietnam on women's entitlement to land, women's wellbeing and gender power relations. The ethnographic study of one village in each of the two countries contextualizes women's lives in the kinship and marriage system in which power and gender relations are embedded. Current land policies, when implemented in the existing kinship and marriage system, make women's entitlement to l…
Ethnic diversity and statistics in East Asia
East Asian nations have become increasingly diverse in their ethnic composition since the 1990s. A large proportion of recent immigrants consists of women from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, who migrated following their marriage to male citizens from South Korea and Taiwan. To study this new group of foreign residents, the governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000. This paper c…
Vietnamese Daughters in Transition
This paper assesses the social implications of employment opportunities in manufacturing for rural young unmarried Vietnamese women. Interested in the ways in which intimate relations, identities and structures of exchange within the family are reconfigured through the migration and work experience, we interview young, single daughters who had obtained employment as garment factory workers in Hanoi. Our focus is on the ambiguities and shifting pe…
Marriage Migrants as Emigrants
This article examines the emigration dimension of marriage migration in Asia by focusing on remittances received by parents from daughters who married and migrated abroad. Based on a study of 250 migrant-sending households in Vietnam with a daughter living in an Asian country as a ‘foreign wife’, the analysis provides empirical evidence that emigrant spouses make substantial financial contributions to their natal families through remittances. A m…
From Foreign Trainees to Unauthorized Workers
This paper documents the experiences of Vietnamese migrant workers who migrated to Japan as industrial “trainees” during early and mid-2000, some of whom became unauthorized workers. Based on in-depth interviews and survey data collected in Vietnam in 2008 and 2009 from migrants who had returned from Japan, this paper explores the factors that led some workers to slip from legal to irregular work. Our analysis shows how the recruitment process in…
The impact of transnational migration on gender and marriage in sending communities of Vietnam
The recent, rapid increase in cross-border marriages between women from Southeast Asia and men from East Asia is creating a new international migration flow of 'marriage migrants' in the region. This article documents how marriage migration reconfigures gender power relations in three migrant-sending communities in Southern Vietnam. Analyses of data collected in 2007 indicate changes in the status of daughters and sons and a significant transform…
The Reinvention of Distinction
Negotiating the Social Family
Transnationalism from Below
This paper examines marriage migration in Asia through the lens of transnationalism. We pull together results from various studies we conducted on marriage migration in Vietnam and Taiwan between 2004 and 2010, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Our main contention is that marriage migration constitutes a significant vector of social change for both sending and receiving areas of migrants. We examine the gendered aspects of this …
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